What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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